Arylation copper acetylides

Available information on the mechanism of cyclocondensation is rather contradictory. According to one hypothesis, both the condensation of aryl halides with copper acetylides and the cyclization occur in the same copper complex (63JOC2163 63JOC3313). An alternative two-stage reaction route has also been considered condensation followed by cyclization (66JOC4071 69JA6464). However, there is no clear evidence for this assumption in the literature and information on the reaction of acetylenyl-substituted acids in conditions of acetylide synthesis is absent. 

The original Sonogashira reaction uses copper(l) iodide as a co-catalyst, which converts the alkyne in situ into a copper acetylide. In a subsequent transmeta-lation reaction, the copper is replaced by the palladium complex. The reaction mechanism, with respect to the catalytic cycle, largely corresponds to the Heck reaction.Besides the usual aryl and vinyl halides, i.e. bromides and iodides, trifluoromethanesulfonates (triflates) may be employed. The Sonogashira reaction is well-suited for the synthesis of unsymmetrical bis-2xy ethynes, e.g. 23, which can be prepared as outlined in the following scheme, in a one-pot reaction by applying the so-called sila-Sonogashira reaction ... 

Unactivated aryl halides react with copper acetylides to give good yields of arylacetylenes Stephens-Castro coupling)P ... 

Reaction between aryl iodides and copper acetylids... 

More recently, a study with di- and mono-carbene Pd(II) complexes has demonstrated that the Sonogashira coupling of activated and non-activated aryl iodides can be carried out in an aqueous, aerobic medium and in the absence of amines. These results suggest that the moisture-sensitive copper-acetylide may not be present in this particular transformation, and that a Pd-acetyhde could be formed by deprotonation of the coordinated alkyne instead of transmetallation [130]. 

There are a number of procedures for coupling of terminal alkynes with halides and sulfonates, a reaction that is known as the Sonogashira reaction.161 A combination of Pd(PPh3)4 and Cu(I) effects coupling of terminal alkynes with vinyl or aryl halides.162 The reaction can be carried out directly with the alkyne, using amines for deprotonation. The alkyne is presumably converted to the copper acetylide, and the halide reacts with Pd(0) by oxidative addition. Transfer of the acetylide group to Pd results in reductive elimination and formation of the observed product. 

Similar to alkenyliodonium salts (see Sect. 6.3), aryliodonium salts are highly reactive substrates in Heck-type olefination and other palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions. Aryliodonium salts can serve as very efficient reagents in the palladium-catalyzed arylations of acrylic acid 101 [75], organotin compounds 102 [76], sodium tetraphenylborate 103 [77], and copper acetylide 104 [78] (Scheme 45). 

Other unsaturated substrates arylated by various diaryl iodonium salts included butenone, acrylic acid, methyl acrylate and acrylonitrile [46]. Allyl alcohols with diaryliodonium bromides and palladium catalysis were arylated with concomitant oxidation for example, from oc-methylallyl alcohol, aldehydes of the general formula ArCH2CH(Me)CHO were formed [47]. Copper acetylide [48] and phenyl-acetylene [49] were also arylated, with palladium catalysis. 

Terminal alkynes can be alkenylated by alkenyl triflates (bromides, iodides) and aryl-ated by aryl triflates (bromides, iodides). These reactions are called Cacchi coupling reactions if the reaction is catalyzed by Cu(I) and Pd(0) and if triflate reagents are employed, Sonogashira-Hagihara coupling reactions if the reaction is catalyzed by Cu(I) and Pd(0) and halides are employed as substrates, and Stephens-Castro coupling reactions for the more specialized case of the noncatalyzed coupling of copper acetylides with aryl halides. 

Fig. 13.22. Mechanism of the Pd(0)-catalyzed arylation of a copper acetylide. Step 1 formation of a 7T complex between the catalytically active Pd(0) complex and the arylating agent. Step 2 oxidative addition of the arylating agent and formation of a Pd(II) complex with a

Mechanistically, this new insertion-CI-Diels-Alder hetero domino sequence can be rationalized as follows (Scheme 64) After the oxidative addition of the aryl halide 115 or 118 to the in situ generated Pd(0) species the arylpalladium halide 120 intramolecularly coordinates and inserts into the tethered triple bond via a syn-carbopaUadation to furnish cyclized vinylpalladium species 121 with a p-acceptor substitution in a stereospecific fashion. Transmetallation of the in situ generated copper acetylide 122 gives rise to the diorganylpalladium complex 123 that readily undergoes a reductive elimination and liberates the electron poor vinylpropargylallyl ether 124. The triethylamine catalyzed propargyl-allene isomerization furnishes the... 

Reflecting their ability to form carbon-carbon bonds (Sec. 3.17), copper acetylides, too, are used to couple with organic halides, particularly with the ordinarily unreactive vinyl and aryl halides (Chap. 25). 

In this variation of the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction, which is closely related to the Stephen-Castro reaction, copper acetylides are reacted with (hetero)aryl halides or triflates to produce (hetero)aryl alkynes [111]. The Sonogashira reaction is comparable to the Suzuki or Stille reactions in its scope and functional group tolerability. 

Under certain conditions, alkynes can be coupled to aryl halides.280 When aryl halides react with copper acetylides to give 1-aryl alkynes such as 431, the reaction is known as Stephens-Castro coupling.28l Both aliphatic and aromatic substituents can be attached to the alkyne unit, and a variety of aryl iodides has been used. A palladium-catalyzed variation is also known in which an aryl halide reacts with a terminal alkyne to give derivatives such as 434. In this variation, called the Sonogashira coupling,2 2 jhe reaction is catalyzed by... 

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